Current Argyle, Texas Population, Demographics and stats in 2016, 2017.
Many people believe that American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick discovered DNA in the 1950s. In reality, this is not the case. Rather, DNA was first identified in the late 1860s by Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher.
It was Crick and Watson who worked out the structure of DNA in the 1950s, but its discovery was made nearly 100 years previously by a Swiss physician called Frederick Miescher. 1  slide 1 of 4. 2  slide 2 of 4. 3  slide 3 of 4  4. slide 4 of  4.